Shirt-front attachment.



J. P. REES.

SHIRT FRONT ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25, 1912.

1,098,638, Patented June 2,1914.

nuawto'n M atto rmeq i cps UNITED STATES gikilENT OFFICE.

JAMES P. REES, 0F DES MOINES, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ELMER E. ROBEY, 0F DES MOINES, IOWA.

SHIRT-FRONT ATTACHMENT.

Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Application filed June 25, 1912.

Patented June 2, 1914.

Serial No. 705,372.

To all whom it may couccm:

Be it known that I, JAMES P. Rees, a citizen of the United States, residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of lowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirt-Front Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices adapted to be attached. to the bosom portions of shirts to hold the same straight and prevent the bosom from wrinkling when the wearer assumes a stooping or sitting position, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device which may be readily attached and detached and transferred from one shirt to another without changing the construction of the shirt or the attachment.

Another object of the invention is to pro vi de a device of this character which may be readily adapted without material. structural change to shirts of various forms and both to open and closed fronts.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described, and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention: Figure 1 is a view from the inside of aportion of a shirt including the bosom with the device applied; Fig. is a detached perspective view of the improved device; Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section on the line s 3 of Fig. 2.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a sheet metal strip 10 preferably of tempered steel, and with studs 11 projecting from the ends, the studs being preferably formed by punching the material from one side to cause protuberances on the opposite side as indicated in Fig. 3. Mounted to swing upon the member 10 near each end, is a clip device, and as the clip devices are precisely alike the de scription of one will sufiicc for both. Each clip device comprises a bar or plate 12 pivoted at 13 to the member 10 and having a lateral off set at the other end, the off set portion. being folded over the body of the plate at the outer end to produce spaced side members 14-15. The side member 14 is in alinement with and forms a continuation oi the bar 12, and united. at 1.6 to the portion l t. The portions l-l-15 thus extend in parallel relations to each other and are spaced apart a distance equal to the thickness of the member 10. The portion 15 of the clip thus bears against the outer points of the spurs 11 and thus operates to hold an article firmly coupled to the member 10, as hereafter eX- plained. Slight recesses 17 are formed in the outer end of each clip member to form a thumb grip TS to assist in rotating the clip member upon its pivot.

The improved device is designed. to be located inside the shirt bosom alongside the central plait, and with the clip members designed to be located upon opposite sides 01 the plait and to thus compress the material of the shirt against the protuberances 11 and hold the device firmly coupled to the shirt.

The member 10 corresponds substantially in length with the bosom of a shirt and when applied one of the clip members will be attached near the ncckband and the other clip member attached to the shirt bosom near the lower end. By this simple means it will be obvious that a stay is produced which may be readily applied to the shirt front and which will. hold the latter from folding together and will not wrinkle or be puffed out- 'ardly when the wearer assumes a sitting or stoo 'iing position. By this simple means the shirt front maintained at all times in a symmetrical form and by placing the attachment upon the inner face of the bosom, it will not be perceptible to the observer and will. thus not detract from tl appearance of the bosom.

The improved device readily adaptable to all forms and styles of shirts and may be applied to open or closed fronts with equal facility.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured and applied, and readily attached or detached or transferred from one shirt to another when required.

lI-Iaving thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A stay member, studs formed integrally therewith, and clamping devices pivoted to the stay member and coacting with said studs to hold a garment between them.

2. A stay member of resilient material having roughened portions at the ends, and

clamping devices pivoted to the stay memher and ooacting with the roughened portions thereof to hold a garment between them.

A stay member, clamping devices pivoted to the stay member near the ends and bearing over one edge of the same, and with a thumb receiving projection extending beyond the ends of the stay member.

4. A stay member having roughened portions at the ends, clamping devices pivoted at one end to the stay member and with the free end bent into U-shape transversely for engaging over the stay member at one edge and coaoting with the roughened portion of the stay member to hold a garment.

5. A stay member, clamping devices pivoted to the stay member near the ends, the free ends of said clamping devices being bent into U shape and engaging over the same edge of the stay member.

6. A stay member including a single bar, studs formed adjacent each terminal of said bar by stamping the body portion, clamping devices pivoted terminally of the said bar, and a thumb projection formed integrally with said clamping devices and extending beyond the ends of the said stay member.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES P. REES.

Vitnesses H. F. Sonora, JOHN A. GIFFEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

- Washington, D. G. I 7 

